Rolls-Royce revisits past glories – but doesn’t explain how

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One thing that is certain about the Rolls-Royce Wraith, to be unveiled at the
Geneva Motor Show in a little over six weeks, is that it will look nothing
like the 1937 Wraith — a classic that attracted celebrities of the day
including George Formby, who owned the car pictured above.

Rolls-Royce’s announcement yesterday of its third model launch under the
ownership of BMW gives few clues as to how the Wraith will look, or whether
it will continue the contemporary boxy design of the Phantom and Ghost, its
similarly ghoulish-named predecessors.